17. blind and stifled : ‘hard to find and choked with weeds. 41: "handfast in : bound up

in.'

395 From Poems and Ballads, Third Series (1889), where it appears without the preliminary inscription.

38. save haply one : I would conjecture that Swinburne means Blake, whose Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794) contain some wonderful lines about children, which might well have found a place in the Golden Treasury. Palgrave's omission of Blake is as remarkable as his inclusion of John Collins and Rogers.

69. pass on pass reach : ‘attain to summit after summit.'

396 ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY (1844–81) was engaged at the British Museum, first in the literary, and afterwards in the natural history department. He wrote four volumes of poems, of which Music and Moonlight, from which the following “ Ode' is taken, appeared in 1874.

1. We: the poets.

22. the old ... the new : i.e. the Past and the Future.

397 WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849–1903), poet, editor, and critic, collaborated with Stevenson in writing three plays, and published several volumes of verse. These splendid lines, written in 1875, when he had lain for months in Edinburgh Infirmary, were printed in his first work, A Book of Verses (1888). In a later edition they are headed · I.M. (in memoriam) R. T. HamiltonBruce (1846–99).'

INDEX OF WRITERS

WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH, FIRST LINES

OF THE POEMS, AND TITLES

PAGE
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, EARL OF STERLINE (1567 {-
1640)
O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm (To
Aurora)

15
ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822–1888)

A wanderer is man from his birth (The Future) 423
Coldly, sadly descends (Rugby Chapel)

435
Come, dear children, let us away (The Forsaken
Merman)

413
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill (The
Ścholar Gipsy)

427
Hark! ah, the nightingale (Philomela)

425
In the deserted moon-blanch'd street (A Summer
Night).

419
Others abide our question-Thou art free (Shake-
speare)

419
Strew on her roses, roses (Requiescat)

426
Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts (The
Song of Callicles on Etna)

417
We cannot kindle when we will (Morality)
AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE (1813–1865)

Come hither, Evan Cameron (The Execution of
Montrose)

391
BACON, FRANCIS, LORD VERULAM (1561-1626)

The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man (Life) 39
BARBAULD, ANNA LETITIA (1743–1825)
Life! I know not what thou art

168
BARNES, WILLIAM (1801-1886)

Since I noo mwore do zee your feäce (The Wife
A-lost)

328
The primrwose in the sheäde do blow (Blackmwore
Maidens)

326
BARNFIELD, RICHARD (1574-1627)
As it fell upon a day (The Nightingale)

21

: 422

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336
335
334
334

336

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377

390
373
384

373

376

378

375

BEAUMONT, FRANCIS (1584-1616)

Mortality, behold and fear (On the Tombs in West-

minster Abbey)
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (1806-1861)

How do I love thee ! Let me count the ways
If thou must love me, let it be for naught
I thought once how Theocritus had sung
What can I give thee back, O liberal
What was he doing, the great god Pan (A Musical

Instrument)
Yet love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
BROWNING, ROBERT (1812–1889)

Escape me ? (Life in a Love)
Fear death 2-to feel the fog in my throat (Pro:

spice)
Give her but a least excuse to love me
Grow old along with me (Rabbi Ben Ezra).
Just for a handful of silver he left us (The Lost

Leader)
Let's contend 'no more, Love (À woman's Last

Word)
Let us begin and carry up this corpse (A 'Gram-

marian's Funeral)
Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the

North-West
died away (Home-Thoughts, from the Sea)
Oh, to be in England now that April's there
The rain set early in to-night (Porphyria's Lover)
The year 's at the spring

This is a spray the Bird clung to (Misconceptions) :
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN (1794-1878)

Whither, midst falling dew (To a Waterfowl)
BURNS, ROBERT (1759–1796)

Duncan Gray cam here to woo (Duncan Gray)
Go fetch to me a pint o' wine (A Farewell)
John Anderson my jo, John
Of a' the airts the wind can blaw (Jean)
O Mary, at thy window be (Mary Morison)
O my Luve's like a red, red rose
o saw ye bonnie Lesley (Bonnie Lesley)
The lovely lass o' Inverness (Lament for Cuiloden)
Ye banks and braes and streams around (Highland

Mary).
Ye flowery banks o’ bonnie Doon
Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', timorous beastie (To å

Mouse)
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD (1788–1824)

And thou art dead, as young and fair (Elegy on

Thyrza)
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind (on the Castie

of Chillon)
o snatch'd away in beauty's bloom (Elegy)
o talk not to me of a name great in story (Au for

Love)
She walks in beauty, like the night
There be none of Beauty's daughters

374
382
373
376

319

153
127
157
156
149
150
149
119

151
131

141

199

209
233

173
177
176

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There's not a joy the world can give like that it
takes away (Youth and Age)

221
When we two parted

:

190
CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777-1844)

A Chieftain to the Highlands bound (Lord Ulin's
Daughter)

182
Earl March'look'd on his dying child (The Maid of
Neidpath)

197
Gem of the crimson-colour’d Even (To the Evening
Star)

187
How delicious is the winning (Freedom and Love) 184
Of Nelson and the North (Battle of the Baltic) 205
On Linden, when the sun was low (Hohenlinden) 212
Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had
lower'd (The Soldier's Dream)

276
Star that bringest home the bee (To the Evening
Star)

273
The more we live, more brief appear (The River of
Life)

307
When first the fiery-mantled Sun (ode to Winter) 262
Ye Mariners of England

204
CAMPION, THOMAS ( --1619)
There is a garden in her face (Cherry-Ripe)

77
CAREW, THOMAS (1598 2-1639 ?)

He that loves a rosy cheek (The True Beauty) 75
CAREY, HENRY (1693 ?-1743)

Of all the girls that are so smart (Sally in our
Alley).

126
CIBBER, COLLEY (1671-1757)

O say what is that thing call'd Light (The Blind
Boy)

111
CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH (1819–1861)

As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay (Qua cursum
ventus)

399
Say not, the struggle naught availeth

400
Where lies the land to which the ship would go 401
COLERIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849)
She is not fair to outward view

178
COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772–1834)

All thoughts, all passions, all delights (Love) 171
Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying (Youth and
Age)

301
COLLINS, JOAN (1742 ?-1808)

In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining
(To-morrow)

167
COLLINS, WILLIAM (1721 ?-1759)

How sleep the Brave who sink to rest (Ode written
in 1746)

119
If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song (To Evening) 143
When Music, heavenly maid, was young (The
Passions)

136
CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)

Diaphénia like the daffadowndilly (Diaphenia) 10
CORY, WILLIAM JOHNSON (1823-1892).
Somewhere beneath the sun (Amaturus)

441

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